Bilingual in Boston: Theatre By and For Immigrants
3 theatre companies have energized South Asian, Chinese, and Latin American audiences by staging plays in their first languages.
All Stories About immigrants
Martyna Majok’s ‘Cost of Living,’ in This Economy?
With a Broadway debut about disabled folks and their caretakers, the playwright of ‘Sanctuary City’ and ‘Ironbound’ is again writing at the margins.
Jocelyn Bioh: ‘African Comedy’ Is Not a Contradiction in Terms
The writer of ‘School Girls’ and ‘Goddess’ writes stories American theatres haven’t seen before but that audiences immediately recognize.
Dear American Theatre: Don’t Forget About Immigrant Artists
One writer’s extraordinary efforts to prove extraordinary ability for an O-1 visa.
Offscript: Stage Migrations
Blanka Zizka, Carmen Rivera, Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, Maria Manuela Goyanes, and Ngozi Anyanwu discuss the immigrant and first-generation American experience in theatre.
Who Do We Think We Are?
America’s self-definition as a nation of immigrants is under threat, as are immigrants themselves. How are U.S. stages and artists dramatizing this moment?
The Chicken Salad Incident
America may call itself a nation of immigrants, but our stories are still scarce on U.S. stages. Let’s change that.
Perchance to DREAM
DACA recipients, feeling unwelcome in the country they call home, claim a home onstage.
The Refuge of the Stage
What roles can theatre play in the global refugee crisis? Healing, representation—and diversion.
